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Session Start — Code Quality skill for Claude Code

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Start a new development session by creating a session file in .claude/sessions/ with the format YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-$ARGUMENTS.md (or just YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.md if no name provided).

How to install Session Start

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/iannuttall-claude-sessions-session-start/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/iannuttall-claude-sessions-session-start && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iannuttall/claude-sessions/HEAD/commands/session-start.md -o ~/.claude/skills/iannuttall-claude-sessions-session-start/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Session Start does

Start a new development session by creating a session file in `.claude/sessions/` with the format `YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-$ARGUMENTS.md` (or just `YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM.md` if no name provided).

The session file should begin with:

Session name and timestamp as the title
Session overview section with start time
Goals section (ask user for goals if not clear)
Empty progress section ready for updates

After creating the file, create or update `.claude/sessions/.current-session` to track the active

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